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Sydney Comedy School

Stand-up comedy course

When
  • Saturday 10 May 2025 from 9:30am to 3pm
Cost

Starting from: $229

This stand-up comedy course will help you to master the art of storytelling, joke-writing and presenting on stage.

Learn from Sydney's best at the Sydney Comedy School. We have over 300 five-star Google Reviews.

Course Overview

Dive into stand-up comedy and be a better storyteller on stage, at work, and socially!

This course is extremely practical and will give you a lot of joke-writing tools to use straight away.

You will learn the science behind jokewriting, explore your personal style of humour, learn a large number of joke structures and writing techniques, and begin to put together your own set.

Stand-up comedy can help you to grow your stage presence, confidence, and ability to wow others in a range of settings.

This course is the most popular stand-up comedy course in Sydney.

Note: We run two courses. This course specifically focuses on joke-writing and you'll be writing jokes nonstop in this course.

If you're interested in performing, please see our Learn Stand-Up + Perform Course.

What we will cover

  • Joke-writing

  • Storytelling with humour

  • Stage presence

  • Scriptwriting

  • Using humour in public speaking settings

Duration

  • This course includes 5-hours of coursework.

  • Note: It is listed in eventbrite as a 1-day or 2-day course. When it is a 1-day course, it is held for 5.5 hours on a weekend from the morning. When it is a 2-day course, it is held for 2.5 hours in the evening over two consecutive weeks. Ie the day and time listed, and the exact same day and time 7 days later.

  • Eventbrite makes it hard for us to list the above information clearly, so please double check that you are aware as to whether you've purchased the 1-day or 2-day course.

Reviews

"I have had the best experience with Sydney Comedy School!" -Hannah

"Great fun! Dave is a really nice and supportive facilitator, and really knows his stuff" -Joshua

"What a fabulous experience to discover some ideas about myself that maybe useful in comedy. Thanks Dave." -Ruth

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